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i Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found a href https www goodreads com book show discipline and punish rel nofollow here a i br br In this brilliant work the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner s body to his soul

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is

i Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found a href https www goodreads com book show madness and civilization rel nofollow here a i br br Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from to from the late Middle Ages when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely to the time when such people began to be considered a threat asylums were first built and walls were erected between the insane and the rest of humanity

i Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found a href https www goodreads com book show the order of things rel nofollow here a i br br With vast erudition Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face gave way to the modern sciences of biology philology and political economy The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths br br In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that man man as a subject of scientific knowledge is at best a recent invention the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture

i Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found a href https www goodreads com book show the archaeology of knowledge the discourse on language rel nofollow here a i br br Madness sexuality power knowledge are these facts of life or simply parts of speech In a series of works of astonishing brilliance historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think br br i The Archaeology of Knowledge i begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge language and action in a style at once profound and personal A summing up of Foucault s own methodological assumptions this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now br br Challenging at times infuriating it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time

In this sequel to i The History of Sexuality Volume I An Introduction i the brilliantly original French thinker who died in gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality br br Throughout i The Uses of Pleasure i Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue And why were other appetites of the body such as hunger and collective concerns such as civic duty not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined if not confined sexual behavior

i Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found a href https www goodreads com book show power knowledge rel nofollow here a i br br Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable i Madness and Civilization i hospitals in i The Birth of the Clinic i prisons in i Discipline and Punish i and schools and families in i The History of Sexuality i But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them br br Now in this superb set of essays and interviews Foucault has provided a much needed guide to Foucault These pieces ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns enabled Foucault in his most intimate and accessible voice to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent and terrifying portrait of society that he was patiently compiling br br For as Foucault shows what he was always describing was the nature of power in society not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power reaches into the very grain of individuals touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes their discourses learning processes and everyday lives br br Foucault s investigations of prisons schools barracks hospitals factories cities lodgings families and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time and as this book proves one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds

b An examination of relations between war and politics b br br From until his death in Michel Foucault taught at the Coll ge de France perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe Each year in a series of public lectures Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year These lectures do not reduplicate his published books although they do have themes in common The lectures show Foucault ranging freely and conversationally over the implications of his research br br In i Society Must Be Defended i Foucault deals with the emergence in the early th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war War was now seen as the permanent basis of all institutions of power a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis Tracing this development Foucault outlines a genealogy of power knowledge that was to become a primary concern in his final years

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology But of his many books not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work i The Foucault Reader i was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose br br The i Reader i contains selections from each area of Foucault s work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings including important material written especially for this volume the preface to the long awaited second volume of i The History of Sexuality i and interviews with Foucault himself in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor br br This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society Foucault s analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society schools hospitals factories homes families and other forms of organized society are brought together in i The Foucault Reader i to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it

Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era into the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers Plutarch Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Seneca and physicians of the era and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self, The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language